[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 97 (Friday, May 17, 1996)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 25131-25133]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-12720]
                        Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 97 / Friday, May 17, 1996 /
Presidential Documents
[[Page 25131]]
                Executive Order 13003 of May 15, 1996
Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate
                Disputes Between Certain Railroads Represented by the
                National Carriers' Conference Committee of the National
                Railway Labor Conference and Their Employees
                Represented by the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
                Employes
                Disputes exist between certain railroads represented by
                the National Carriers' Conference Committee of the
                National Railway Labor Conference, including
                Consolidated Rail Corporation (including the Clearfield
                Cluster), Burlington Northern Railroad Co., CSX
                Transportation Inc., Norfolk Southern Railway Co.,
                Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co., Union
                Pacific Railroad, Chicago & North Western Railway Co.,
                Kansas City Southern Railway Co., and their employees
                represented by the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
                Employes. The railroads involved in these disputes are
                designated on the attached list, which is made a part
                of this order.
                The disputes have not heretofore been adjusted under
                the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45
                U.S.C. 151 et seq.) (the ``Act'').
                In the judgment of the National Mediation Board, these
                disputes threaten substantially to interrupt interstate
                commerce to a degree that would deprive a section of
                the country of essential transportation service.
                NOW, THEREFORE, by the authority vested in me as
                President by the Constitution and the laws of the
                United States, including section 10 of the Act (45
                U.S.C. 160), it is hereby ordered as follows:
                Section 1. Establishment of Emergency Board
                (``Board''). There is established effective May 15,
                1996, a Board of three members to be appointed by the
                President to investigate any and all of the disputes
                raised in mediation. No member shall be pecuniarily or
                otherwise interested in any organization of railroad
                employees or any railroad carrier. The Board shall
                perform its functions subject to the availability of
                funds.
                Sec. 2. Report. The Board shall report to the President
                with respect to the dispute within 30 days of its
                creation.
                Sec. 3. Maintaining Conditions. As provided by section
                10 of the Act, from the date of the creation of the
                Board and for 30 days after the Board has made its
                report to the President, no change, except by agreement
                of the parties shall be made by the railroads or the
                employees in the conditions out of which the disputes
                arose.
                Sec. 4. Records Maintenance. The records and files of
                the Board are records of the Office of the President
                and upon the Board's termination shall be maintained in
                the physical custody of the National Mediation Board.
                Sec. 5. Expiration. The Board shall terminate upon the
                submission of the report provided for in sections 2 and
                3 of this order.
                    (Presidential Sig.)
                THE WHITE HOUSE,
                    May 15, 1996.
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                RAILROADS
                Alton & Southern Railroad
                Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company
                Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company
                Belt Railway Company of Chicago
                Burlington Northern Railroad Company
                Camas Prairie Railroad Company
                Chicago and North Western Railway Company
                Consolidated Rail Corporation (including the Clearfield
                Cluster)
                CSX Transportation, Inc.
                    The Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Company
                    The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company (former)
                    The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company (former)
                (Northern and Southern Regions)
                    Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company
                (former)
                    Clinchfield Railroad (former)
                    Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company (former)
                    Monon Railroad (former)
                    Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railway Company
                    Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company (former)
                    Toledo Terminal Railroad Company (former)
                    Western Maryland Railway Company (former)
                    Western Railway of Alabama
                Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad
                Houston Belt and Terminal Railway
                The Kansas City Southern Railway Company
                    CP-Kansas City Southern Joint Agency
                Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad Company
                Longview, Portland & Northern Railway Company
                Los Angeles Junction Railway
                Manufacturers Railway Company
                Meridian & Bigbee Railroad Company
                Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad
                    Oklahoma, Kansas & Texas Railroad
                Missouri Pacific Railroad
                New Orleans Public Belt Railroad
                Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad Company
                Norfolk Southern Railway Company
                    The Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company
                    Atlantic & East Carolina Railway Company
                    Central of Georgia Railroad Company
                    The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific
                Railway Company
                    Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Company
                    Interstate Railroad Company
                    Norfolk & Western Railway Company
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                    Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway Company
                    Tennessee Railway Company
                Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad
                Corporation
                Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District
                Peoria and Pekin Union Railway Company
                The Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny Railway
                Company
                Port Terminal Railroad Association
                Portland Terminal Railroad Company
                Spokane International Railroad
                Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
                Union Pacific Railroad
                Utah Railway Company
                Western Pacific Railroad
                Wichita Terminal Association
[FR Doc. 96-12720
Filed 5-16-96; 12:02 pm]
Billing code 3195-01-P